July 17: Day Of The Week
July 17, 2013 is the 198th day of the year 2013 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 167 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is miércoles.
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Here’s the July calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
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| 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
| 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 |
| 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | |||
Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
July 17 Historical Events
- 1717 –King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where George Frideric Handel’s Water Music is premiered.
- 1791 –Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing as many as 50 people.
- 1794 –The sixteen Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne are executed 10 days prior to the end of the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror.
- 1899 –NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
- 1918 –On the orders of the Bolshevik Party carried out by Cheka, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are murdered at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
- 1944 –World War II: Napalm incendiary bombs are dropped for the first time by American P-38 pilots on a fuel depot at Coutances, near St. Lô, France.
- 1968 –A revolution occurs in Iraq when Abdul Rahman Arif is overthrown and the Ba'ath Party is installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President.
- 1981 –A structural failure leads to the collapse of a walkway at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri killing 114 people and injuring more than 200.
- 1981 –The opening of the Humber Bridge by HM The Queen in England.
- 1996 –TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board.
Who were born on July 17?
- 1487 –Ismail I, Shah of Persia (d. 1524)
- 1912 –Art Linkletter, Canadian television host (d. 2010)
- 1921 –Louis Lachenal, French alpinist, one of the first two mountaineers to climb a summit of more than 8,000 meters.(d. 1955)
- 1944 –Carlos Alberto, Brazilian football player
- 1944 –Mark Burgess, New Zealand Cricketer
- 1961 –Jeremy Hardy, British comedian
- 1965 –Alex Winter, English film director
- 1965 –Craig Morgan, American singer
- 1976 –Matthew Holmes, Australian actor
- 1983 –Adam Lind, American baseball player
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